She was the featured viola soloist in the BBC TV documentary “The Passions of Vaughan Williams” with Richard Hickox and the Philharmonia Orchestra, and has performed Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante alongside violinists Christian Tetzlaff, Antje Weithaas and Benjamin Schmid in Germany, Switzerland and London.

Prizes for her chamber music recordings include the Diapason D’or, the „Supersonic Award’ of Pizzicato magazine, Luxembourg, CD of the month in Fonoforum Magazine, Germany, and BBC Chamber Choice in Gramophone Magazine. Rachel Roberts has recorded chamber music for labels Hyperion, Champs Hill Artists, Signum Classics, cAVI in Germany and Deutsche Rundfunk

Highlights of 2014/15 include a second solo CD release with pianist Lars Vogt, chamber music performances alongside Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis, an appearance with the Tetzlaff String Quartet, live BBC Radio 3 recitals with the London Conchord Ensemble, and the release of their new disc featuring Mozart’s ‚Kegelstatt’ Trio. Looking ahead to 2016 sees a chamber music tour to Japan with Christian Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt and Tania Tetzlaff.

Rachel is violist with the chamber ensemble ‚London Conchord Ensemble’, hailed by Gramophone Magazine as „London’s new Supergroup“, and frequently records and performs with them. The group is resident at Eton College, Windsor, and regularly gives masterclasses there. This year the group will enjoy it’s first festival at the UK’s ‘Rathfinny Vineyard’.

Professor of Viola at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she has given masterclasses at the Britten Pears Young Artists Programme, Dartington International Summer School, Chethams School of Music, BirminghamConservatoire and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She holds the esteemed Institute of Education qualification: Professional Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher and Professional Education.